07-12-2018, 02:03 PM
(07-12-2018, 01:59 PM)Dill Wrote: "Taking history" from sagas is rather different from considering Scops "historians." Beowulf tells us a lot about the state of Old English language in 1000 CE, as well as customs and modes of address common in 8th-9th Saxon culture, but few think it describes actual battles between humans and monsters/dragons.
I am not disputing the existence of a 1st century Rabbi who became the founder of a dissident Jewish sect, later syncretized with existing Greek and Roman philosophy/religion over the next three centuries to become a major world religion.
My question regarding the dates is to highlight how much of this narrative is, for us, a matter of scientific, scholarly and even literary reconstruction.
Oh as far as did it happen like they say it did. Sure questioning that is obvious.
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